ITS Cooperative Mobility Services Event 5

In the continuous effort to support rapid ITS deployment and to validate the ETSI ITS Release 1 standards, a fifth Plugtest will be organized in November 2016 focusing on Co-operative Mobile Systems standards from ETSI, CEN and ISO and to test the interoperability of ITS equipment from all key vendors.

ETSI is looking to recruit technical expertise and test session chairs to support and conduct this event. The call is available here: Call.

Stakeholders in the Plugtest scope (see Overview) are invited to submit Use Cases to plugtests@etsi.org.

ETSI, in partnership with ERTICO, are pleased to invite you to the fifth C-ITS Plugtests™ event which will take place from 9th to 18th November 2016. This event will be hosted by CNIT and the Livorno Port Authority at the Port of Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.

Similar to past events interoperability and conformance tests will be conducted:

With the support of infrastructure vendors, the lab testbed will be extended with Traffic Management components in order to enable end-to-end interoperability scenarios, while testing ITS protocols at the air interface between OBUs and RSUs.

The ETSI Conformance Validation Framework will be used to pre-qualify implementations and it will be available during the Plugtest.

With the support of Regione Toscana, AVR, Autostrade Tech, Telecom Italia and ITRI access to the Port and the Florence-Livorno highway will be provided. ITS infrastructure vendors will have the opportunity to deploy RSUs in the Port as well as along the highway and to connect RSUs to the AVR highway control center.

Stakeholders in the above-mentioned scope are invited to submit Use Cases to plugtests@etsi.org. In the preparation of the Plugtest the Use Cases will be discussed and Interoperability Tests will be developed.

Furthermore, the Livorno Port hosts an IoT/M2M testbed which allows to demonstrate ITS-IoT/M2M Transportation Use Cases centered on wireless distributed monitoring. Vendors will be invited to showcase ITS-IoT/M2M based applications in the domain of Smart Mobility.

REGISTRATIONAll participants must be registered for the event in order to receive their credentials to access the WIKI and be subscribed to the mailing list dedicated to this event. Companies registered shall have at least one person on site during the event. The registration deadline is 16 September 2016.Every first person in a company to register to this event is de facto the official contact, who can add new participants from this company with the credentials received upon first registration.

The event is free of charge and attendees are responsible for all other associated costs (travel, meals, etc.).

NDAAll participating companies must sign the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that the official contact will receive upon registration. Companies will not be allowed to participate to the event if the NDA has not been signed. The deadline to return the signed NDAs to ETSI is 28 October 2016.

The cruise terminal:This will be the Plugtest headquarter and all lab tests will be organized here. The terminal will be segmented into several test rooms. The terminal hosts a bar providing food and beverages.

The test-drive path:The test-drive path starts in front of the terminal. It can be used for a quick setup of testing equipment on the field.

The RollOn-RollOff terminal:It is located at the highway exit. A road circuit will connect this point to the freight village allowing for 10' test drive.

The container terminal:It will host an IoT testbed to allow for demos/tests beyond genuine ITS, towards Future Internet applications.The container terminal also includes a railway terminal connected to the freight village and to the main Tyrrhenian (Pisa – Rome) rail track.

Along the highway path:A setVariable Message Sign where test RSUs will be set up leveraging the connectivity with the highway Control Center (in Empoli).

A real-world hazard:The movable bridge is located within the track of the Livorno/Florence highway. The operations on the movable bridge are eligible to generate a "Road Hazard Warning".

At the control center:A testing setup running an Application Server will be hosted in the control room, allowing full interoperability with other systems (in production) including devices generating DATEXII messages (e.g. traffic counters).

17th November 2016

The ‘Port Innovation Workshop’ took place in parallel with the Plugtest. Workshop participants could explore the Plugtest exhibition corner and take a demo ride with the test vehicles.

The fleet of test vehicles, ready to take workshop participants on board:

Workshop participants were dispatched to the test vehicles:

Yogoko succeeded to make a secured journey on the test drive! On its way it loaded EA and AT certificates from its IPv6 enabled RSU and sent secured CAMs and verified secured DENMs received from other vehicles. The ISE PKI server received Yogoko’s certificate requests and issued the certificates, see screenshot below.

Today the main scope was to test the Mitigation of Tolling and ITS. RSUs broadcasted CAMs with ProtectedZone information. The test vehicles received the CAMs and reduced the Tx power when approaching the protectedZone.

Testing has started

The ITS Plugtest 2016 started today!

Posted by
Claire Gauthier
on 09 November 2016

It is the first outdoor ITS Plugtest conducted ever, and has been made possible by a cooperation of large scale stakeholders such as the Port of Livorno and the Tuscan highways and motorways.ITS equipment will be deployed on a test track in the Port of Livorno as well as on the Tuscan highway. Furthermore there will be IoT in ITS showcases and the Port Innovation Conference 2016 takes place , see https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-seaport-innovation-2016-28784039838

Over the next days more than 20 vendors are expected at the Cruise Terminal in Livorno, Italy.Today Aricent, Ctag, Cnit, Commsignia, Itri, Marben, Nordsys, Renesas, Savari, Swarco, System X, Unex and Uni Reims have arrived.